"Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily.
Every day when one's body and mind are at peace, one should
meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifels, spears and
swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown
into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being
shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-
foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death
of one's master. And every day without fail one should consider
himself dead.
            There is a saying of the elder that goes, "Step from under
the eaves and you're a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy
is waiting." This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider
oneself as dead beforehand."



This I live by. Yadokta.